Famous Theodor Adorno Quotations

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"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."
by Theodor W. Adorno
"Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality."
by Theodor W. Adorno
"A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself."
by Theodor Adorno
"He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof."
by Theodor Adorno
"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1-foot chain."
by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
"Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains."
by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."
by Theodor Adorno
"The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning."
by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
"The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated."
by Theodor Adorno
"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public."
by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
"Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals."
by Theodor Adorno
"Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture."
by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."
by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
"The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant."
by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
"There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence."
by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno


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